Science editor Gus Axelson is just back from a tour of eastern Hungary sponsored by Swarovski Optik. (Look for his story about bird conservation in Hungary to appear in a future issue of Living Bird.) As Gus returned to the world of American Redstarts and other brilliant warblers, he turned his attention to a more [...]
Considered the only fjord on the east coast in the US “Somes Sound runs north-south in the middle of Mount Desert Island. This section is at the southern end where it opens into the open ocean. At the north end is the small and picturesque village of Somesville, the first settlement on the island.” – [...]
Many of the people following our BirdCams grew pretty attached to our Red-tailed Hawks and Great Blue Herons. Now that the youngsters are making their first flights into the great unknown, we’ve been getting requests for memorabilia. We’re pleased to announce a few commemorative designs for coffee mugs and t-shirts, including our unofficial “Pip, Pip, [...]
An Osprey chick on a Scottish estate has been snatched from its nest by a buzzard in front of shocked bird lovers.
Some of the Birdfreaks (Jennie and Dakota from Ohio and Mom/Dad [Grandma/Grandpa] in Illinois) traveled to Maine this June. Birds, mammals, snapping turtles in the road mixed with a whole lot of natural wonders and history made this a memory-building experience! One of the first things we found was an awesome rest stop by Chautauqua [...]A highly endangered Sumatran rhinoceros has given birth to a calf in western Indonesia, only the forth birth in captivity in more than a century, according to the Indonesian forestry minister.A rare white rhinoceros is born in a zoo in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, after a year and a half long pregnancy.
Yes we have a few around here; but not the kind that pops out of a clock now and then, nor the ones that conger up images of strange behavior. We have two kinds of cuckoo in our area – each named for the color of their bill – the Yellow-billed Cuckoo and the Black-billed [...]
Dickcissels have been abundant this year. Not only that but they always seem to be posing for photos.
Over the weekend I heard about a Lark Bunting reported from a preserve in a nearby county in northern Illinois called Nippersink. I hadn’t even heard of this place and oddly enough, had never seen a Lark Bunting before either. This bird of the Great Plains somehow ended up at this beautifully restored prairie grassland [...]
“Pleased – pleased – pleased ta meetcha” Well, that’s one way to remember how the song of the Chestnut-sided Warbler. “Chicken in a car and the car can’t go – that’s how you spell Chicago”. That’s a mnemonic that helped us as kids to remember how to spell Chicago. Did it work? I don’t know, [...]